Mrs Charlton was born in Hull and was a scholar invited back to school to teach young girls as was the custom before the war when she was 14. She served in the Auxiliary Territorial Army during World War Two before working as an usher in the Regal Cinema in the 1950s. She met and married but was widowed in 1979 and was known by her neighbour to be frugal with her pension.

Serving her country in the 1940s and working at the local cinema during the post-war society, could she possibly have imagined how screwed-up her country would become and how many Tozers it would produce? That the powers-that-be would stop believing in such concepts as right and wrong and start to sympathise, Patty Hearst-style, with the bad guys rather than their victims?

The BBC report failed to mention the most shocking fact of all – that Tozer should never have been out in the first place. The future killer was released just five months into a fifteen month sentence which he'd received for attacking someone with a pool cue. Poor Mrs Charlton was just another victim of the probation system, which now helps to kill one person a week.

Why the BBC report should omit this fact I really can't imagine. They're terribly keen to amplify calls for "corporate manslaughter" charges to be brought when private organisations – or prisons for that matter – are implicated in avoidable deaths. I think it'll be a long time before we hear Helena Kennedy, Marcel Berlins or Michael Mansfield (he's just on R4 now) being interviewed on the BBC about the need for the Probation Service to be included in corporate manslaughter law.

Ultimately the question is why we, the people, are not being consulted about violent criminals who are let off serving their sentence. If the next government want to bring democracy closer to the people they could start by creating directly-elected chief executives in each county, and giving them the right to veto any early prisoner releases.